oboeinsight

So I’ve sometimes described oboe as an instrument that sounds sort of like a “snake charmer”. But … well … WORMS? Hmmmm. Anywhere else and this would have looked strange, but here it’s all part of the worm charming repertoire. People playing the oboe, or jumping around on a board was commonplace. If only I [...]

I just read this site that suggests that musicians should run world governments. The idea is that music unites. We musicians … well, we are all just peace loving creatures, right? Well. Sometimes. But I’ll tell you, I’ve seen and heard some mighty big fights between musicians, and I know of at least one musician [...]

Audiences are rarely on the same wavelength as performers. In fact, two very different things are going on at once. The musician is wondering how to get from the second eight bars into the bridge, and the audience is in pursuit of emotional energy. The musician is struggling, and the audience is making up dreamlike [...]